The Oscar-winning filmmaker got a little politically correct for E.T.’s 2002 re-release.
is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie-talkies… Years went by and I changed my own views. I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that.
“All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there,” Spielberg added. “So I really regret having that out there.”This isn’t the first time Spielberg has publicly criticised his own wokeness.Raiders of the Lost Ark
: “For myself, I tried [changing a film] once and I lived to regret it. Not because of fan outrage, but because I was disappointed in myself. I got overly sensitive to [some of the reaction to] to E.T., and I thought if technology evolved, [I might go in and change some things]… it was okay for a while, but I realised what I had done was I had robbed people who loved, was up for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It’s out now on iTunes.